This is a 5-hour course

Managing behavior balances with understanding our learners and their learning styles. Differentiating for various student instructional needs is key to harnessing learning style and other data. While much of it is about student engagement, it is also about knowing them, and how they learn, enough to engage them in learning more. Whether they learn kinesthetically (using physical, hands-on), or inter-personally (social) for example, gives us the opportunity to craft activities and performance tasks geared to garnering better behavior that then allows us to help them academically.  Participants in this course will learn how to use learning style information to develop effective behavior management strategies.

Course Objectives:

  • Practice with a variety of learning style theories to determine learning styles.
  • Understand various age and grade appropriate behavior management theories as they align with multiple learning styles.
  • Align behavioral theory to identified learning styles in order to successfully manage behavior and instruct students.
  • Apply, through planning and job-embedded action steps, specific and measurable behavioral management goals and strategies as they align with identified learning styles.

This is a 5-hour course

Research, careful thought and planning are some of the ingredients to effective classroom management practices proven to work in inclusive classrooms. Participants in this course will learn how to create balanced classrooms with sound learning environments for inclusive settings. Examples of various settings will include co-teaching, peer coaching and collaboration, and the use of appropriate behavioral supports for struggling learners and students with disabilities. Various teaching approaches will include co-teaching, interactive teaching, parallel teaching, and the structuring of lessons and classrooms that lead to useful learning in optimal learning environments.

Course Objectives

  • Develop working familiarity with research-based strategies for classroom management practices in inclusive classroom settings.
  • Understand what differentiated classrooms look like. Analyze and plan using various teaching methods and models.
  • Align management strategy with content goals based on industry best practices for inclusive 6-8 settings.

This is a 5-hour course

Careful thought and planning can garner the best classroom management practices for inclusive classrooms. Participants in this course will learn how to create balanced classrooms, and evaluate their utility in various settings and scenarios to include co-teaching and collaboration. The use of appropriate supports for exceptional students and students with disabilities will be practiced with through various teaching approaches, to include co-teaching, interactive teaching, parallel teaching, and through lesson development.  Participants will glean useful learning strategies as they align with teaching of core content for inclusive settings.

Course Objectives:

  • Understand how to plan for and apply research-based strategies to classroom management practices in inclusive classroom settings.
  • Understand what balanced classrooms look like, and plan similarly using various teaching methods and models.
  • Align management strategy with content goals based on industry best practices for inclusive K-5 settings focused on ELL growth.

This is a 5-hour course

Teaching and differentiating in inclusive classrooms requires careful and flexible planning and creativity. Through design, re-design, and research-based, field tested strategy in inclusive classrooms, participants will invent and reinvent lessons using effective methods for differentiation. Learning profiles, interest survey cognitive-friendly learning environments, tiered questioning and student "hooks" for rigorous learning application are some of the takeaways of this e-course.

Course Objectives:

  • Create differentiated lessons for inclusive classrooms through design and strategy.
  • Practice with grade appropriate strategies that lead to effective and diverse learning environments.
  • Plan thoughtfully and flexibly using tools, resources, and new strategy to address the needs of diverse learners.

This is a 5-hour course

Interventions for increasing the academic engagement and progress of students with autism spectrum disorder in inclusive classrooms will be the focus of this course. Use of empirically supported, field-tested strategies for inclusive classrooms will detail strategies for successful implementation. Participants will become familiarity, and develop facility with, strategy pertinent to their own classroom realities. From songs in transition times, to listening activities and visual engagement, participants will end this course with the creation of comprehensive lesson plans that incorporate course strategies as they align with standards, curriculum and instruction for students with autism.

Course Objectives

  • Understand and prepare for the diverse needs of students with autism by aligning research and standards-based instructional strategy to them. 
  • Practice with implementation tools and strategies focused on the needs of students with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Leverage information, tools and resources with student readiness and differentiated approaches to learning.